How caregiver's anticipation shapes infant's vowel through mutual imitation

IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 217-225

  Ishihara, Hisashi ^a   Yoshikawa, Yuichiro ^b   Miura, Katsushi ^a,b   Asada, Minoru ^a,b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Caregiver's anticipation; Sensorimotor mapping; Vowel development

Indexed keywords

CAREGIVER'S ANTICIPATION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; PAPER MODELS; SMALL CLUSTERS;

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 77955701601     PISSN: 19430604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAMD.2009.2038988     Document Type: Article

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